Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Key: F#F#
Difficulty: Intermediate
Key: F#F#
Chords used:
F#F# - 244322
C#C# - x46664
D#mD#m - x68876
D#D# - x68886
BB - x24442
G# minorG#m - 466444
A#A# - x13331
Intro:
D#mD#m BB D#mD#m BB D#mD#m BB B C#C# x2
Verse 1:
D#mD#m BB
And on that day they'll tell you
D#mD#m BB
That life hummed on with no clue
D#mD#m BB BB C#C#
The warning signs were all dismissed or shouted down
D#mD#m
So it goes
BB
The kings all failed to tell us
D#mD#m BB
The madmen failed to sell us
D#mD#m BB BB C#C#
On what would then befall the only life we'd know
Refrain 1:
G# minorG#m BB
Were they burning signal fires to guide us to the fields?
G# minorG#m BB C#C#
Or building funeral pyres? The outcome of a final appeal
Chorus 1:
D#mD#m F#F# G# minorG#m
The city lines are down the kerosene's run out
A#A# C#C# D#mD#m
The fracturing of all we relied upon
F#F# G# minorG#m
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
A#A# C#C# D#mD#m BB D#mD#m BB
Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone
Verse 2:
D#mD#m BB D#mD#m BB
The paranoia gripped us the rain turned engines to rust
D#mD#m BB BB C#C#
The panic set in like a cancer to our hearts
D#mD#m
Spreading through
BB D#mD#m BB
We bet on finite genius or prayed for gods to save us
D#mD#m BB BB C#C#
But there was no antidote disease tore us apart
Refrain 2:
G# minorG#m
We left bodies in the fields
BB C#C#
So numb that we forgot how to feel
Chorus 2:
D#mD#m F#F# G# minorG#m
The city lines are down the kerosene's run out
A#A# C#C# D#mD#m
The fracturing of all we relied upon
F#F# G# minorG#m
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
A#A# C#C#
Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone
Bridge:
D#mD#m BB G# minorG#m D#mD#m
He looked at the fields and then his hands
C#C# BB
All I need is what I have
G# minorG#m D#mD#m
Then fell a tear of happiness oh oh oh oh
BB G# minorG#m D#mD#m
She watched the world crumble away
C#C#
"Is this the end of yesterday?"
BB C#C# D#D#
"Lord I hope so" is all he said
BB
All gone are the old guards
G# minorG#m D#mD#m
Gone are the cold cold wars
F#F# BB
Weightless we go forth
C#C# D#mD#m
On wings of amnesty
C#C#
Oh we relied on now
Chorus 3:
D#mD#m F#F# G# minorG#m
The city lines are down the kerosene's run out
A#A# C#C# D#mD#m
The fracturing of all we relied upon
F#F# G# minorG#m
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
A#A# C#C#
Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone
D#mD#m F#F#
No more no more
G# minorG#m A#A#
No more no more
C#C# D#mD#m
No more no more
F#F#
No more no more
G# minorG#m
No more no more
A#A# C#C# D#mD#m
The weight that we once felt is gone